Christine Lester is Assistant Headteacher at Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form in Essex, UK. She teaches History to students aged between 11 and 19 and is a previous recipient of the of the Teachers’ Award following one of her students being named Young Historian of the Year. Previous projects Christine has been involved in include ‘America on the World Stage’, research funded by the Department for Education into provision for Gifted students in California, a collaboration between UK and US teachers at the American Air Museum in Duxford, UK and a teacher study programme of the Holocaust funded by the Holocaust Educational Trust at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.